Version: (using KDE KDE 3.4.1) Installed from: Compiled From Sources Compiler: GCC-3.4.4 OS: Linux The profiles: "filemanagement" & "webbrowsing" are embedded in the code rather than being in a configuration file. The default profiles to use should be configurable in a KCM. The current method is a design error. If you open Konqueror with the command: konqueror and the profile: "webbrowsing" is not available, it opens with NO profile. Then "Location -> New Window" results in an error.
I see many inconsistences in profile management too: - Toolbar that are managed in a barbar way - kfmclient that doesn't read the profile files properly And too many problem with preloading too... I tried to split the rc file to manage profiles, but it isn't a final solution. Please review your code and keep up the good work ;)
I am using konqueror 3.5.7 and find that personal profiles do not work at all. Any configuration saved to a profile gets lost whenever I save for another profile. Annoying! Makes konqueror unusable as browser to me. I regret it as it could be such a great tool.
More detailed my two cents to the way the word "profile" is used in konqueror: My expectations are that I have ALL configuration entries filed to a new profile, not only the "view" parameters. I need e.g. different proxy entries, different homepages etc. for different network connection (private/@work). Using a private konquerorrc file does not work also. The original konquerorrc file precedes the private file. All changes are written to the original file and not to the file given in the command line when konqueror was started. So: please think about the way you design the use of "profile" and "--config".
This appears to affect the way profiles are "saved" as well, as it appears impossible to override the apparently hard coded profile from session to session, eg, on start up, all is set to web-browsing and the view appears to be file size view...this when konqueror is launched from the Folder widget. When launched from the Konqueror profiles widget, it works differently but as noted in the other comments, it is sporadic and inconsistent as to if or when you can effect a change. Konqueror should honor profile settings regardless of which 'widget' launches it.
Message from the Bugsquad and Konqueror teams: This bug is closed as outdated, as we do not have the manpower to maintain the KDE3 version anymore. If you still can reproduce this issue with Konqueror 4.8.4 or later, please open a new report. Thank you for your understanding.
I don't know if the comments apply to 4.8.4, however please see: kde-4.8/kde-baseapps/konqueror/src/konqmainwindow.cpp The basic problem still exists and needs to be resolved.